On the 8th of September, 1692, Mary Osgood, wife of Captain Osgood, of Andover, was taken before John Hawthorne, and other of their majesties' justices, when she confessed that, about two years before, she was carried through the air, in company with Deacon Fry's wife, Ebenezer Baker's wife, and Goody Tyler, to Five Mile Pond, where she was baptized by the devil, and that she was transported back again through the air, in company with the forenamed persons, in the same manner as she went, and _believes_ they were carried on a _pole_! She was asked by one of the justices, how many persons were upon the pole; to which she answered, As I said before, viz., four persons, and no more, but whom she had named above. Are not these cases to be relied upon as much as those related by Mr. Sunderland? Could not _four_ respectable ladies tell whether they were _actually_ carried through the air on a pole or _not_? _Could_ they be deceived? Possibly, in the days of chloroform, or ether, it might have been the case; but not at the period in which it actually occurred. Some of the bewitched persons, as in the case of Elizabeth Knap, of Groton, alarmed the people by their _ventriloqual_ powers, in imitating sounds and languages. And it would be nothing strange if some of our modern witches were in possession of the same talent. No wonder that the editor of one of the Boston papers should have ventured the opinion, that if some of these persons had lived two hundred years ago, they would have been hanged for witchcraft. It appears to us, that if we believe in all that is alleged of the rapping spirits, and their manifestations, we must be prepared to indorse all that has been published of witches and ghosts, spooks and hobgoblins, in every age of the world, which, at present, we are not at all inclined to do. We do not believe that any of the noises heard, or any of the information given, has proceeded from beings out of the normal state. We are rather inclined to adhere to the sentiment contained in the old couplet:-- "Where men _believe_ in witches, witches are; But where they don't believe, there are none there."